Folk etymologies are so stupid, they make me mad every time.

Here is a stupid folk etymology: During the Mexican-American war US soldiers wore green uniforms and the Mexicans sorted at them in English, "Green, go home!" Which became "gringo."

So fucking stupid go sleep in the garage

@leila What about how "urchin" went from hedgehog to hedgehog-transforming goblins to evil devil children to orphans?

@leila Very Werner Herzog voice: "The world reveals itself to one who travels as a ball"

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